News 2008 March 3

Transneft to start building oil port south of Vladivostok

Novorossiysk port closed because of swell

Shipping lines expect no volume growth

AP Moller Maersk enters vessel sharing agreement with MSC and CMA-CMG

Turkish Arkas achieved a 20 % growth in 2007

Ecological damage caused by tug-boat sunken in the Gulf of Finland is valued at RUR 19.2 million - RosPrirodNadzor

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port starts development of project on deepening of Tsemesskaya Bay

RUR 3.3 bln to be allocated for maintenance of Leningrad region highways from federal budget this year

ESPO throughput to reach 50 mln t by 2016 and 80 mln t by 2025

Sea Port of St. Petersburg invested RUR 546 million into its own development in 2007

St. Petersburg Exchange starts oil products trading

Throughput of Murmansk Commercial Seaport up 22% in February 08 to 1.1 million tonnes

Euronav wins Maersk FSO contracts

Bangladesh enters to international shipbuilding market

Ports of Auckland profit up 20pc in 2007

China shipbuilding tonnage up 30% to 18.93 million tons last year

CMA CGM, Maersk, MSC launch two joint China-California services

China Merchants to complete 25 container berths in western Shenzhen in two years

Awata to fix BAF surcharge at US$612 per TEU

India's CONCOR to build 8 container depots

Construction of Special Sea Oil Port Kozmino to cost RUR 42bln - Tokarev

Oil price down to $100.1 in London and to $101.84 in New York